EPA ENERGY STAR makes it easy to save up to $50 per PC annually.
Or is it just you? Internal air quality and comfort are more than just temperature. Whether your school is pushing the envelope or making small changes, there are many ways to keep building occupants happy and energy bills in control.
The bottom-line benefits of the EPA's ENERGY STAR program.
Here's how energy benchmarking is helping some school districts reduce energy consumption, thereby gaining energy savings. It may be just the tool your district needs.
The Geothermal Energy Project at Missouri University of Science and Technology
The design and up-fit of educational facilities should be the result of a whole systems approach and not one of designing and installing isolated pieces and parts.
The Collaborative for High Performance School (CHPS) released the fourth edition of the California CHPS Criteria (CA-CHPS) on Aug. 25, 2014.
This recently released guide provides a host of tools and resources for administrators, teachers and parents concerned with making healthy purchasing decisions that are good for students and the school environment.
Across the country, colleges and universities are spending their green on green.
Facilities and the conditions of the learning environment have an effect on students and staff.
Furman University has received recognition for its commitment to its campus environment, most recently as a model for arboreta in the Southeast and across the nation.
A school district's path to running completely on solar.
Sustainable design expertise has delivered the first high-performance building on the campus of Boston University.
After its first year in operation, this school facility is proving to be unique.
The challenges of energy efficiency and savings, along with other sustainability efforts, are being met through teamwork and innovation on the island campuses of The University of the Virgin Islands.
A commitment to sustainability, combined with a public benefit corporation relationship, is allowing Nazareth College to reduce its carbon footprint.
Higher education has always been at the heart of innovative, committed, societally responsible change, and never has there been more and better ongoing evidence of this in sustainability.